Empire State of artificial intelligence

Published July 7, 2025

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 news program Buffalo Brief featured Venu Govindaraju in a lengthy interview about UB’s work involving artificial intelligence. This included the university’s management of Empire AI’s supercomputing center and its potential to address pressing societal challenges, as well as the National AI Institute for Exceptional Education, which Govindaraju leads. “New York is leading the way,” he said discussing Empire AI, adding that the public-private partnership “is going to do wonders” for AI “being used for public good.” Portions of the interview aired on WIVB’s broadcasts on Monday.

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